Department of Emergency & Trauma Services
Overview
The department has 30 beds, including a six-bed ICU with advanced monitoring, protective equipment, rapid communication and ambulances with advanced life support. A rapid-response trauma team handles respiratory, neurological, cardiac, accident, cancer-related, poisoning, paediatric, surgical and trauma emergencies. The team also manages ballistic and firearm wounds, critically ill patients and patients suffering from acute infections. The objective of our emergency department is to offer quick responsive emergency care to save lives. Fastest emergency response can save lives.
Facilities
We follow a triage system of Zones and adopt it in emergencies. Patients are ranked into red, green and yellow zones, from the most to the least severe and urgent. The department has distinct patient care units to take care of patients who needs responsive care immediately. Each unit has a specific role, such as resuscitation, trauma, decontamination, general medicine, obstetrics or paediatrics, where patients are admitted and treated. Every emergency bed has suction, oxygen delivery and electronic monitoring.
The services of our laboratory and diagnostic units are available to the emergency department. Radiology, cardiology and neurology labs services are available to the ER department round the clock.
- Sophisticated Emergency Equipment and Devices
- State-of-the-art Diagnostic and laboratory Unit
- Intensive Care Units (ICU’s)
- Well-equipped operation theatres
- Separate Obstetrics and Gynaecology rooms
- Rapid medical evaluation process
- Quick Responsive Cardiac Emergency team
- A Stroke team to take care of stroke cases
- Centralized nursing stations
- Triage rooms
- Resuscitation Unit
- Major Trauma Unit
- Minor procedure room
- Board-certified and specialized emergency physicians
- Emergency Department team works collaboratively with Specialists from other disciplines
- Well-equipped Ambulances with trained trauma and emergency team
- 24 hrs pharmacy
Round-The-Clock Emergency Services
Our Emergency Centre provides responsive care to resuscitate critically ill patients. To ensure this a separate resuscitation unit is available. We follow international triage system in providing emergency care to patients.
The department is staffed by qualified emergency physicians, organized support staff and dedicated trauma teams. Intensivists, ACLS-certified nurses, trauma technicians and emergency personnel also provide patient care. The centre follows protocols for mass casualty and disaster response and runs public education programs.
